Do you have to be Muslim to inherit money in Morocco?

urbanshopping101 wrote:

Sorry, but that may be your mother's fault.  She should of had a will.
I have various types of insurance and investments.  Even though married my husband is not the the full benefactor for any of these resources.
Knowing that I get nothing from my husband's estate in Morocco I am considering removing his name off our house title.
If we ever got divorced I am not giving him anything even if I make more money because he had just as much stuff in Morocco.
Seriously think I just need to help him start moving money out of Morocco and changing stuff in to my daughter's name.

I don't believe taking choices away from people really helps.

I don't know the law in Canada, but in the USA and in the State of Florida, after a divorced, spouse is entitled to half of the sale value of primary house and percentage of the total assets accumulated during their marriage. If spouse dies while still married, primary house is 100% living spouse in Florida. Even if spouse's name not on deed or title.

urbanshopping101 wrote:

As an example.  A man and woman get married.  Then after a few years the husband still make a $25 000, but the wife gets a job making $100 000.  Is it reasonable that the husband pays for everything while the wife has all this money?  The wife can afford a very good lifestyle living in a nicer house, driving a nicer car, can travel, shop or dine out, be entertained in nicer places.  The husband after paying for even basic needs at very basic levels might not even have enough to cover of all the normal household bills.  So this idea suggested in Islamic teachings does not really work in my society.

How fair would it be if a husband can only afford to buy bread and water to live on but the wife has her own money and lives on bread, water given to her by her husband and area I, lobster and fresh fruit and cake she buys fro her own money?

I understand the point you're making. But 100K jobs are not available to all and anyone. So if a woman comes from a very good background with a potential earning power of 100K, and decides to marry a man below her status, who can only earn a quarter of that, then she has made the wrong choice in marriage if she is looking to live a certain lifestyle. She should simply marry a man who can afford it or be willing to help him out.

urbanshopping101 wrote:

Well that  is not what has happend.  After we had our child I got a really good job and make way more money then my husband.  Though ironically we have the same amount of assets and he may even have more on his end.  His money which is mainly from inheritance is basically trapped in Morocco and most is locked in to land.

So if I went to live in Morocco he could support me..... but I would loose my high income and the perks accosiated with that and risk getting nothing if something should happen to him.   But he can't support me to a desirable level in Canada.  Also our desired standards of living are very different.  He is okay with living a simple life..... I am not when I have the resources to have a more comfortable life

So this idea of living off the husband's income does not work in countries like Canada especially in major cities.  Very few families can survive on 1 income and if they do they are going to have a very basic life.

As an example.  A man and woman get married.  Then after a few years the husband still make a $25 000, but the wife gets a job making $100 000.  Is it reasonable that the husband pays for everything while the wife has all this money?  The wife can afford a very good lifestyle living in a nicer house, driving a nicer car, can travel, shop or dine out, be entertained in nicer places.  The husband after paying for even basic needs at very basic levels might not even have enough to cover of all the normal household bills.  So this idea suggested in Islamic teachings does not really work in my society.

How fair would it be if a husband can only afford to buy bread and water to live on but the wife has her own money and lives on bread, water given to her by her husband and area I, lobster and fresh fruit and cake she buys fro her own money?

This is what I would recommend if you want the marriage to work. Live in Canada until retirement age. Keep your money there and setup a converter account in Morocco, so you can transfer money into it when needed using money exchange service like transferwise or something similar. Your husband/your family can always travel back and forth each year to Morocco in time being to see his family.

XB23 wrote:

urbanshopping101 wrote:

As an example.  A man and woman get married.  Then after a few years the husband still make a $25 000, but the wife gets a job making $100 000.  Is it reasonable that the husband pays for everything while the wife has all this money?  The wife can afford a very good lifestyle living in a nicer house, driving a nicer car, can travel, shop or dine out, be entertained in nicer places.  The husband after paying for even basic needs at very basic levels might not even have enough to cover of all the normal household bills.  So this idea suggested in Islamic teachings does not really work in my society.

How fair would it be if a husband can only afford to buy bread and water to live on but the wife has her own money and lives on bread, water given to her by her husband and area I, lobster and fresh fruit and cake she buys fro her own money?

I understand the point you're making. But 100K jobs are not available to all and anyone. So if a woman comes from a very good background with a potential earning power of 100K, and decides to marry a man below her status, who can only earn a quarter of that, then she has made the wrong choice in marriage if she is looking to live a certain lifestyle. She should simply marry a man who can afford it or be willing to help him out.

I agree with this.

urbanshopping101 wrote:

lol .... My husband is going to buy that train of thought.  Despite being married to me my husband is actually religious.  For example he dies not have to fast for Ramadan for medical reasons.... but despite this exemption he still fasts.  Why?  Because he thinks that if he dies why fasting it is God's will.  Only god knows when we will die.
Despite living in s multicultural country my husband will not work on Friday unless his he is able to leave to go to Mosque on Friday.

Also my husband has actually said according to religious teachings a Muslim can't give their money to a non Muslim or something like that.  So even if it is not a legal issues my husband struggles with doing things that seem to be against Islamic principals.  For example he won't wear gold.  He will occasionally wear a silver necklace I bought him as a gift.  His explanation is that religious teachings suggest gold jewlery is only for women ... men should not try to wear or do things to look like women ... or something like that.  He has mellowed out a bit since we were first married about some things ... but has not hugely changed his views on core things.

I always said embrace humanity before any religions . But i can understand why ur husband is like that and why he cant give his money to non muslim all this teaching though i believe its not from GOd its from what his muslim clerics understood and interpreted however the the shcools teached them that enemy is jweish and christains and if you know how much hate in their duaa in the prayer  of friday say about jweish and christains .

It is what i call wahabizm its an ideology come from saudi arabia and spread to other western arab world using the petrodollars

I believe ur husband will never integrate in candian society even if he become a canadian .
Another things the will is not accepted in sharia law Narrated AbuHurayrah:

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Allah has appointed for everyone who has a right what is due to him, and no bequest must be made to an heir.
But anyway the point that i want to make her the sharia law is law made by clerics not god to control people and thats the situation of your husband .

Take just an example and i am sure of that he will never say happy Christmas cuz its against to his relgions  and so on ....